Quirky Queries: A Journey Through Art, History and Curiosities

All of today’s questions relate to 28 March.

Ecstasy of St Teresa
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  1. The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, shown above, is in the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. Whose work is the sculpture?
    • Bernini
    • Donatello
    • Michelangelo
  2. This city, dating back to c657 BCE, underwent name changes under the Romans in the 4th century and again in 1930. Can you name it?
    • Baghdad
    • Istanbul
    • Sofia
  3. This author, who passed away on this day in 1941, is best known for her novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). Who is she?
    • Rebecca West
    • Katherine Mansfield
    • Virginia Woolf
  4. The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experienced an accident on 28 March 1979 that resulted in radioactive leakage. On what river does the plant stand?
    • Atchafalaya River
    • Susquehanna River
    • Willamette River
  5. On this day in 1939, General Franco, the leader of the Nationalist forces during a civil war, captured his nation’s capital city. This was one of the last events before he declared victory. What civil war?
    • Austrian Civil War
    • Greek Civil War
    • Spanish Civil War

Good luck! I will post the answers later today.

Three Mile Island nuclear generating station, 1979.
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Author: Scott F

As a retired trivia writer, editor and quiz compiler, I wholeheartedly agree with Bertrand Russell’s quote: “There’s much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.” Trivia of all sorts has always fascinated me, and for many years, I’ve written and compiled trivia for various media, including traditional TV and radio quiz shows, newspapers and magazines, apps, and other digital platforms.

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